.send
Is .send a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.send is not contested. One applicant has said publicly that it applied to run it, and nobody else has, as of 15 August 2026. It is Link Freedom Group.
A catchy action word for payments, transfers, and file-sharing tools, but most serious projects would treat it as a side domain, not home.
fintech and payments startups, crypto transfer and wallet products, and file-sharing or messaging tools that want an action-oriented call-to-action domain (pay.send, files.send style)
In LFG's published list of 300+ strings submitted before the ICANN window closed on 2026-08-12. Their catalog tagline: “Shift gears, change direction.”
The 2012 applications making the most similar bet. Chosen by AI from every string in that round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet exactly: a one-syllable English imperative verb for a money-or-thing-in-motion action, wanted by payments and platform giants as a call-to-action namespace whose value depends on owning a verb consumers already say rather than on any definable category of registrants.
Also a bare communications verb positioned as a do-this-now namespace for telecom and messaging players, and like the target it only pays off if the operator can convert a universal action word into branded destinations instead of selling it to an industry.
Same underlying job — dispatching something to someone — and the same buyer profile of messaging and delivery incumbents, but it reads primarily as a noun with entrenched postal and inbox associations, so its identity pull is narrower than an open-ended action verb.
What a .send domain is
.send is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. One applicant has said publicly that it applied for .send.
Is the .send domain extension real yet?
.send is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. It is a string applicants have put forward in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, the process that decides whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .send domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .send name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .send was .pay, delegated on .
Is .send a real TLD?
Not yet. .send is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant said publicly that it applied for .send in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round. Every claim on this page links to its source.
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“.send · AI & Tech · “Shift gears, change direction.””Link Freedom Group
“LFG voluntarily published its full list of submissions ahead of ICANN’s official Reveal Day.”PR Newswire (Link Freedom Group)
“Top level domain registry Link Freedom Group (LFG) has disclosed more than 300 strings submitted as part of the ICANN new top level domain name program.”Domain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is a clean, universally understood English verb tied to real product categories: money movement, file transfer, messaging, and email infrastructure. By analogy, verb and action TLDs such as .link and .click have tended to fill on price and redirect-style utility rather than primary-identity use, while noun-category strings like .app achieved standard status only with an anchor ecosystem behind them; .send has no such anchor in the verified facts. It sits below the 50-69 band because there is no evidence of a category (payments, transfer tools) where a .send address is the expected primary identity, and adoption would need explaining to customers and investors alike; it sits above the 10-29 band because the word maps directly onto multiple durable, well-funded product categories, so genuine primary-identity use by transfer-focused products is plausible within 5 years, not merely vanity registration. The applicant is Link Freedom Group, which filed more than 300 strings in the ICANN 2026 round and published its list ahead of Reveal Day; its catalog files this string under AI & Tech with the tagline 'Shift gears, change direction.', which reads closer to a mobility theme than to the transfer/payments meaning most buyers would attach to the word, so positioning at launch is uncertain. A portfolio applicant of that breadth implies registrar-channel distribution is plausible but marketing focus per string is unknown. Main market uncertainty: whether fintech and crypto transfer products, the best-fit buyers, will adopt an action-verb TLD as a primary brand identity rather than a redirect or campaign domain.